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Reading List:
Bostrom, N. and M. Cirkovic eds. 2007.
Global Catastrophic Risks . Oxford University Press.
"Global Technology Regulation and Potentially Apocalyptic Technological Threats," by J. Hughes, in
Nanoethics: The Ethical and Social Implications of Nanotechnology (2007)
Millennial Tendencies in Responses to Apocalyptic Threats by J. Hughes in Global Catastrophic Risks eds. Nick Bostrom and Milan M. Cirkovic. Oxford University Press. 2008. pgs 72-89 Apr 14, 2008
Existential Risks: Analyzing Human Extinction Scenarios and Related Hazards by Nick Bostrom
Dinosaurs, Dodos, Humans? (pdf) by Nick Bostrom
Catastrophe: Risk and Response by Richard Posner
The End of the World: The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction by John Leslie
Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning: How Terror, Error, and Environmental Disaster Threaten Humankind's Future In This Century - On Earth and Beyond by Martin Rees
Reducing the risk of human extinction by Jason Matheny
Emerging Systemic Risks in the 21st Century: An Agenda for Action (pdf) Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (2003)
Global Risks 2006 (pdf) World Economic Forum (2006)
Annihilation from Within: The Ultimate Threat to Nations Fred Ikle
Catastrophe, Social Collapse, and Human Extinction (pdf) ., and Robin Hanson (2007)
Some Limits to Global Ecophagy, with Public Policy Recommendations. by Robert Freitas
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Ikle, F. C. 2006.
Annihilation from Within: The Ultimate Threat to Nations. Columbia University Press.
Joy, B. 2000.
Why the Future Doesn't Need Us. Wired Magazine, April, Issue 8.04.
Leslie, J. 1996.
The End of the World. Routledge.
Matheny, J. 2006.
Reducing the Risk of Human Extinction..
Posner, R. 2004.
Catastrophe: Risk and Response. Oxford University Press, 2005.
Preston, R. 2002.
The Demon in the Freezer. Fawcett, 2003.
Rees, M. 2003.
Our Final Hour. Basic Books, 2004.